Just Because I Met You

Chapter 24

I laid deadly across the long couch, in the living room, watching television. Trina was gone to work at the Hospital and Mom was actually home, cleaning the entire house because of the neat freak she was. She has OCD when it comes to cleaning.

After she finished, she came to sit next to me.

"So, you know how I help clients overcome drugs and alcohol?" She asked.

I nodded. She was pretty damn good at it too.

She squealed like a little girl. What's going on? "My Manager asked me to work with a really bad drug addict. He's on Heroin really bad and he thinks that I can help him. If I succeed, we'll have a big wad of cash coming in my next check."

"Really? How much?" I question.

She smirks, "Surprise."

I hug her, "Well that's great Mom! I'm happy for you!"

She hugged me back tighter, "I didn't even tell you the best news, Ari." I pulled away awaiting for her to continue. "This guy lives in La Romana, Dominican Republic." My mouth dropped.
She has to go to the Dominican Republic. She's flying across the ocean, millions of miles away from me.

"That's great Mom! But how long will you be gone? You know I get anxiety when you go away to long places for awhile." And that was true. She had gone to Washington, New York, Nevada, and more for these clients. She works all throughout the day so I have no contact with her until night. I'd be yearning for her call all day, and freak out when she didn't call. Its bad anxiety. I love my Mom, and I'd go crazy if something ever happened to her.

She put her index finger on her chin, "Hmm, you mean how long will we be gone?"

My eyes popped out of my sockets and mouth dropped, "Did you say we?"

She nodded smiling from ear to ear. I hugged her tightly.
I'm going to the Dominican Republic!

"I told my manager about how you get nervous when I'm gone and about how you were going to freak out when you found out that I'm going across the ocean, so she says "You know what? You're one of my best workers, you that right? So how about I work some stuff out with the flight, and have you, Arianna, and you're guests staying at your home take a last minute vacation before Arianna goes back to school. It'll be a great start for her Senior year, eh?" And I told her that would be an amazing idea and you'd be excited!"

"Trina and Jared are coming too?" I ask. She nods again, and I jump for joy.

This was going to be absolutely fun! The Dominican Republic. Do you know how beautiful it is there? My God, I'm going to have a stroke.